Writers of the Lost Art: A Locknote Address on the Future of Speechwriting
Thank you, Jo Ann, and David. It’s nice to be back together after two years of virtual conferences brought on by the pandemic and still be able to have many …
Badassery, at the 2022 PSA World Conference
We may seem a quiet, cerebral group, practitioners of a refined craft dating back to classical Greece, when the likes of Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates dusted the hems of their …
Western Elites Deny National Sovereignty and International Law
Dear citizens of Russia, citizens of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, residents of the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, deputies of the State Duma, and senators of the Russian Federation! …
To corporate leaders who wonder why folks don’t want to return to the office …
Jean-Paul Sartre once clarified the meaning of his famous line, which came from an existentialist play he wrote in 1944: “Hell is other people” has always been misunderstood. It has …
Contributors’ Guidelines for the new Executive Communication Report website
Our new Executive Communication Report website exists primarily as common bullpen for practitioners of executive communication to visit for inspiration, instruction and professional camaraderie. We also want it to become …
Three Categories for the Songs I Write
Well hi. I want to say thank you to [Bart Herbison, the NSAI’s executive director] for introducing me in such a generous way and I want to say thank you …
Burned Out, and Wanting to Talk About It
When I sat down in a conference room in San Francisco to listen to a presentation on executive communications, I wasn’t expecting to take it … so personally. As researcher …
CEOs Don’t Have a ‘Bully Pulpit’
Some old activists in my neighborhood tell a story from forty years ago, when Pizza Hut was tearing down a historic corner building to put in one of its cheesy …
A Union That Stands Strong Together
Madam President, Honourable Members, My fellow Europeans, Never before has this Parliament debated the State of our Union with war raging on European soil. We all remember that fateful morning …
Aram Bakshian, speechwriter to three Republican presidents, is dead
Longtime presidential speechwriter Aram Bakshian died Wednesday from pancreatic cancer, at 78. Bakshian wrote for Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan. Perhaps his most lasting contribution was “the Skutnik,” a Bakshian …